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...assume the University’s top post at a Feb. 18 meeting in the coastal Florida city. After several hours of discussion with the two officials, the 75-year-old Harvard veteran accepted the invitation. “The decision did involve a substantial change in the content, direction, and pace of my life,” Bok wrote Monday. “On the other hand, I have a strong sense of loyalty to Harvard, and I understood quite quickly after discussing the situation at the University that this was not an invitation I could conscientiously refuse...
...musical aspect of “Monkey Business” is another matter entirely. Unapologetically poppy, musical experimentation never gets in the way of danceability on this album. But at the same time neither is it content to leave the beats unadorned and uninteresting. Instead, we get the middle ground: lots and lots of bongos, Latin influences on many of the songs, a song in Tagalog (“Bebot”), a Middle-Eastern sound on occasion, the fantastic marriage of “Miserlou” and handclaps, and even a piano outro...
...value of their copyrights and by stodgy academics who worry that a corporation might make a poor gatekeeper for the world’s information.Google has had more success with a recent pilot program in which they’ve agreed to digitize and put online the video content of the National Archives, including United Newsreel Motion Pictures from the Second World War, NASA documentaries from the ’60s, and a variety of other footage. Google video (video.google.com), once viewed by college students only as a tool for wasting time watching clever Super Bowl commercials and home movies...
...That the likeliest contenders for Oscar's grand prize have significant Canadian content is one sign of the sizable role the country plays in Hollywood's most vaunted movies. Another is the high percentage of Oscar-nominated pictures that were launched at last September's Toronto International Film Festival. Brokeback was there, as was Capote. TIFF showcased three of the movies whose stars are up for Best Actor, and all five Best Actress films. It's commonly said that the Oscar season starts in Toronto. This year, by all indications, Canada will be there at the finish...
...establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring certain neighborhoods off limits, the angry reaction of black residents and politicians got him to back down. For now, his Bring New Orleans Back Commission (BNOB) has been content to go on supervising a process in which residents in heavily damaged neighborhoods are being paired this month with planners and other specialists to determine how--or even whether--their area can be brought back to life...